The third African Conference on Sanitation and Hygiene, AfricaSan 3, took place in Kigali, Rwanda from the 19th to the 21st July 2011. CLTS was very well represented at the conference. Dr Kamal Kar gave a lead address, a thematic session on CLTS in Africa was well attended and included more than 15 speakers from a variety of countries and organisations; and many delegates visited the CLTS exhibition stall so that publications disappeared like hotcakes.

In this one pager Petra Bongartz uses the example of the CLTS Action and Learning Group UK to illustrate how informal networking can be a useful tool for information sharing, learning and collaboration.

In 2010, IDS commissioned a small study on the sustainability of Himachal Pradesh’s efforts in rural sanitation in the last few years. Deepak Sanan, Principal Secretary to the Government of Himachal Pradesh for the Departments of Energy, Urban Development, Town and Country Planning and Housing designed the survey and trained Pradeep Chauhan and Vinod Rana who then co-ordinated the survey work. Vinod Rana carried out the data analysis.